We haven’t had a meeting for a while and there hasn’t been much activity .
I’ve been locked in to Trade Union work mainly to do with Home Helps. They’re being asked to make a big change in their working lives by working at Weekends and Public holidays instead of Mon -Fri.
They’re being asked to do virtually( I use this word cautiously) the same work as Social Care Workers but the proposal is to pay them a grade less.
As you can imagine there’s a lot of upset and fear.
Management are arguing that they want to keep more work “in -house” and , at the moment, “too much” is going to the private sector. At the meetings I’ve attended they’ve more or less admitted that the quality is not as good. - finally! But this will still leave 60% in the Private Sector
However this is a big change and requires a lot of time But the struggle is still there.
In fact Edinburgh Council is possibly going to privatise up to 4000 jobs and services such as Street cleaning (as if these workers haven’t suffered enough!); Housing Benefits and Revenues;; HR and Corporate Services. There is a campaign against this – they’re holding local public meetings; street leafletting etc and the public response is very much on our side.
Anyway let’s meet on Wed. and discuss the campaign All Welcome
